父母早期教育参与对子女未来学业成绩的影响——基于TIMSS2015香港数学与科学数据

The Effects of Parental Early Educational Participation on Their Children's Academic Achievements:Based on the Math and Science Data of TIMSS2015 in Hong Kong

父母的教育参与对子女学业发展的作用不容忽视。本研究使用2015年TIMSS香港数据,探究父母在子女入学前的早期教育参与对子女后期数学、科学成绩的影响。结果显示,在控制了性别、移民、家庭学习资源等背景因素及子女自我概念后,父母早期教育参与对子女未来数学、科学学业成绩具有积极影响。父母应消除关于数学与科学学习的性别刻板印象,为学前子女提供丰富的数学和科学学习活动,并切实提高自身对STEM教育的认识,为子女后续学业发展奠定良好的家庭基础。

Family education plays an important role in the development of children. As the first teacher of their children, parents’ education participation in children’s academic development shouldn’t be ignored. The current study used Hong Kong secondary data from TIMSS2015 survey to investigate whether parental educational involvement in the earlier childhood can enhance children’s mathematics and science achievement in 4th grade. Results showed that after controlling for gender, immigration, and family learning resources variables, parental earlier education involvement had positive significant effects on children’s mathematics and science achievement at 4th grade. The results suggest that parents should overcome gender stereotypes in family education, provide pre-school children with rich mathematical and scientific learning activities, and enhance their understanding of STEM, so as to lay a good family foundation for their children’s follow-up academic development.